Very appropriate question. We won't be losing 'freedom of movement' anytime soon. Given that likelihood, many probably would not have seen much point in leaving. Immigrants are still going to come, we might just not have to pay them benefits.

Well I didnt vote leave! But I'm struggling to see how all this hardship and upset is going to be worth basically being back where we were before minus a vote - but I would be very happy for someone to tell me what the advantage is.

You do realise don't you that a considerable number of immigrants into this country are white and english speaking (not that it should matter).

So what makes you think that someone wanting immigration control is racist?

I don't care who comes to our country or where they come from or even what their intentions are when they get here.

I do want to know that we have the infrastructure and resources in place to cope with everyone though and I also want to know that controls are (or could be) put in place should our infrastructure become strained.

And considering the amount of racism that has been shown to pp who are British but Brown skinned, turns out it wasn't just concerns about current levels of immigration, but a deep seated hatred of pp who aren't like them

I think fewer leave voters would have turned out (too complicated). They needed a vague word like 'leave' or 'no' so it could be a focus for general rejection. Facts, detail, complexity, counterbalancing.... need not apply.

Some would still have voted leave as it would be a part solution for them.

I am still baffled as to why some leave voters feel a leave vote is in line with a rejection of immigrants from outside the EU. I mean, their fantasy that voting leave guaranteed fewer EU immigrants was one thing. I thought even leave voters realised that a rise in non EU immigrants was likely to result from Brexit. I thought even Farage and Boris had presented that as a positive. But now there is all this general racism being expressed.

The more some (some!) of these leave voters speak, the clearer it is that their problems really aren't caused by the EU or by immigration.

I am still giggling at the man who said on Channel four news last night, 'That is clearly a racist comment and it must be dealt with in a racist manner'.

I don't necessarily think people who want immigration control are racists. In fact I do sympathise somewhat. If you can't get a job but see lots of Polish people moving into your community and finding work or you see your child who is struggling to read and getting little help in school but the children newly arrived and unable to speak English are getting 1 to 1 support, you might feel angry. Some people did have genuine concerns but if they complained they were just called racists. Nobody in mainstream politics listened to them and tried to address their needs, and now, this is the result.

If I were in their position I still wouldn't have voted leave though because I knew it wouldn't make a single bit of difference to free movement. The best we can hope for now is a deal on trade and free movement the same as we have now but with non of the voting right.

When Boris became mayor, the first thing he did was to cancel the Respect concerts in London and then disband the domestic violence forum, which held police forces across London to account regarding how they dealt with DV cases. This is not a man who is pro minorities or women.God help us if he is PM

It is completely pointless for a Leaver to try to have a reasoned discussion with Remainers on here. All Remainers want to do is throw out insults and call us racist. I have explained on many threads that immigration was way down my list of reasons for voting but it appears that's too complicated for you to understand. Not forgetting the 'you are too thick to know what you are doing' taunts of course.

So I suggest you argue with each other and bore yourselves to death. I've stopped banging my head against a brick wall, seriously, none of you are worth the effort.